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kibbitz

kibbitz is the alternative spelling of kibitz.

Meaning of kibitz

Verb

kibitz (third-person singular simple present kibitzes, present participle kibitzing, simple past and past participle kibitzed)

  1. (intransitive) To make small talk or idle chatter.
    • Louise and I used to head down to the coffee shop and just sit for hours and kibitz.
    Synonyms:
    chat, gossip
  2. (intransitive) To give unsolicited or unwanted advice or make unhelpful or idle comments, especially to someone playing a game.
    • Quit kibitzing! You're giving away my hand!
  3. (intransitive, transitive) To watch a card or board game.
    • […] stayed in the dorm, although she lived in Brooklyn Heights, and I frequently spent long hours with her, either in her room or at the student lounge, where we drank coffee and smoked cigarettes and kibitzed the never-ending bridge game.2002, Elisabeth Merrett, Storied Landscapes: A Journey, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 103

Forms of kibbitz

third-person singular presentkibbitzes
present participlekibbitzing
past participlekibbitzed
pastkibbitzed

Words formed from kibbitz

Questions about kibbitz

What is kibbitz the alternative spelling of?
Kibbitz is the alternative spelling of kibitz.

Words near kibbitz in the dictionary

  1. kibbes
  2. Kibbey
  3. Kibbeys
  4. kibbi
  5. kibbis
  6. kibbitz
  7. kibbitzed
  8. kibbitzer
  9. kibbitzers
  10. kibbitzes
  11. kibbitzing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kibbitz (page history and authors); kibitz (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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